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Edgewater High School opens health care center for students
http://www.wesh.com/news/edgewater-high-school-opens-health-care-center-for-students/25057744?tru=AEEvB#mid=18655431Funded by Florida Hospital and Florida Department of Health, the Orlando high school opened a new health care center on campus, that will be staffed with a full-time nurse practitioner. Nurse practitioners can write prescriptions, give treatments, conduct sport physicals and serve various other medical needs of the students.
Darcy Ravendal, the school's nurse practitioner, was able to save Ronny Roman a trip to the doctor when the student needed stitches taken out of his hand.
"In middle school in New York, we didn't have this," Roman said. "They put a band-aid on everything and sent you off with an ice pack. Now you have somebody who can give you medical care as if you were in a clinic."
The clinic will also service six schools that feed into Edgewater High. For some students it's the only health care they'll get.
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Awesome news from my alma mater.